Plutonium Files: How the U.S. Secretly Fed Radioactivity to Thousands of Americans *
Denver-based journalist Eileen Welsome reveals how as a reporter for the tiny Albuquerque Tribune (circulation 35,000) she uncovered one of the country's great Cold War secrets: the U.S. government had knowingly exposed thousands of human Guinea pigs with radiation poisoning including 18 Americans who had plutonium injected directly into their bloodstream.

We speak with Colorado University professor Len Ackland about the former plutonium-processing Rocky Flats nuclear bomb making plant. Ackland is author of the book Making A Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West that examines the four-decade history of Rocky Flats.

We speak with Wes McKinley, a Colorado rancher and the foreman of a grand jury that investigated activity at Rocky Flats about the charges he makes in his new book The Ambushed Grand Jury: How the Justice Department Covered Up Government Nuclear Crimes and How We Caught Them Red Handed.

* Recycling Plutonium: How the EPA Plans to Disburse Toxic Waste From the Lowry Landfill to the Sewage System and into CO Farmlands *

We speak with Colorado University Environmental Studies professor Adrienne Anderson about the Lowry Landfill. Citizen groups claim the landfill is widely contaminated with highly radioactive plutonium and other deadly wastes. The EPA now wants to treat the contaminated groundwater at the landfill and discharge it into the Denver metro sewage system.

Polish President: We were 'taken for a ride' about Iraq's WMD:
"That they deceived us about the weapons of mass destruction, that's true. We were taken for a ride," Kwasniewski said.www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=9310

17/03/04

Bush camp exposed as 'serial liars':
US President George Bush and his four top advisers made a combined total of 237 misleading public statements on the threat posed by Iraq. The claim was made in a congressional report released on Tuesday.informationclearinghouse.info/article5875.htm

Iraq on the Record: Database Containing The Bush Administration's Public Statements on Iraq :
A comprehensive record of the statements made by the five Administration officials most responsible for providing public information and shaping public opinion on Iraq: President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice.www.house.gov/reform/min/features/iraq_on_the_record/

Our Nation Betrayed: The Iraq WMD Intelligence Deception:
If we are to maintain a viable federal government, President George W. Bush and the officials who orchestrated this deception must be held accountable to the American citizens. A Must Readinformationclearinghouse.info/article5878.htm

U.S., Certain That Iraq Had Illicit Arms, Reportedly Ignored Contrary Reports:
In the two years before the war in Iraq, American intelligence agencies reviewed but ultimately dismissed reports from Iraqi scientists, defectors and other informants who said Saddam Hussein's government did not possess illicit weapons, according to government officials.www.nytimes.com/2004/03/06/politics/06WEAP.
html?ex=1079548347&ei=1&en=109438a83b74f0f5

US Sen Kennedy:CIA Director Must Come Clean With Congress :
CIA Director George Tenet must come clean with Congress and explain why he waited until last month to "set the record straight" that Iraq posed no immediate threat to the U.S. in the months leading up to the war, a leading Senate Democrat said Friday.tinyurl.com/2fykc

04/03/04

UK: Attorney General conceded doubts over legality of war:
The Foreign Office memo, which has been submitted to a Commons select committee, was seized on by critics as evidence that important caveats in the legal advice were excluded from the summary published by the Government.news.independent.co.uk/uk/
politics/story.jsp?story=497647

03/03/04

Admit WMD mistake, survey chief tells Bush :
David Kay, the man who led the CIA's postwar effort to find weapons of
mass destruction in Iraq, has called on the Bush administration to "come clean with the American people" and
admit it was wrong about the existence of the weapons.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5806.htm

UN Iraq Inspectors Say U.S. Has Not Cooperated :
U.N. arms inspectors on Tuesday complained that a lack of cooperation by the United States had stymied their efforts to completely account for Iraqi weapons.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5807.htm

02/03/04

U.N.: Iraq had no WMD after 1994 :
A report from U.N. weapons inspectors to be released today says they now believe there were no weapons of mass destruction of any significance in Iraq after 1994, according to two U.N. diplomats who have seen the document.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5800.htm

UK: Extreme measures :
Our prime minister is up to his neck in it. His attorney general appears to have changed his advice about the legality of the war a few days before it began. Blair refuses to release either version, apparently for fear that he will be exposed as a liar and a war criminal.www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1159775,00.html

01/03/04

Threat of legal action fails to silence Short:
The confrontation between Clare Short and Tony Blair over the Iraq war escalated yesterday after she defied a warning from the Cabinet Secretary of possible legal action for speaking to the media about government secrets.news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=496552

UK: Doubts on case for conflict may bring flood of claims :
Doubts about the legality of the war could lead to a flood of compensation claims against the government from servicemen injured in Iraq, according to a leading international lawyer.www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1159251,00.html

US told UK Attorney General to alter legal advice on Iraq war:
The attorney general initially told Tony Blair that an invasion of Iraq would be illegal without a new resolution from the United Nations and only overturned his advice when Washington ordered Downing Street to find legal advice which would justify the war.www.sundayherald.com/40318

The whistleblower, the loose cannon and the case for war:
A week that began with extraordinary and embarrassing revelations about British spying at the UN in the run-up to the Iraq war has ended with the far more damaging suspicion that the Government is attempting to withhold evidence that may reveal there was no legal justification for the invasion in the first place.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5787.htm

Rebel MP vows: I'll take Blair with me:
RENEGADE British MP Clare Short has vowed to topple Prime Minister Tony Blair if she is forced to quit amid an outcry over her sensational claims that Western intelligence agencies bugged the office of United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in the lead-up to the war in Iraq.www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/
story_page/0,5744,8829432%255E2703,00.html

UN chief stood in way of war plans :
In the last few weeks before the invasion of Iraq it became clear that
President George Bush, with Tony Blair in tow, was bent on war – and
one of the key people standing in his way was the UN secretary general,
Kofi Annan.www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1157528,00.html

Duplicity, evasions – but no answers :
The revelations of Katharine Gun should not have come as too big a surprise. After all, we have come to expect the worst of our security services when they are guided by men and women of little principle. Yet when we bug our allies to undermine them at the UN, we are plumbing new depths.politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/com
ment/0,12956,1157482,00.html

Blix's phone tapped: sources:
The British or US intelligence services monitored former United Nations chief weapons inspector Hans Blix's mobile phone whenever he was in Iraq, sources have told the ABC.www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1054505.htm

How Britain and the US keep watch on the world:
Nothing politically or militarily significant, whether mentioned in a telephone call, in a conversation in the office of the secretary general of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, or in a company fax or e-mail, escapes its attention.news.independent.co.uk/world/
politics/story.jsp?story=495514

Britain's spying shame:
Fury at claims Britain spied on UN: There was speculation at Westminster last night that the bugging was carried out by American security services but that Mr Blair did not wish to say so for fear of upsetting the Bush administration.news.independent.co.uk/uk/
politics/story.jsp?story=495525

Australian spy circle tied to UN bugging:
Australia was privy to the phone-tapping operation on the United Nations figures Kofi Annan and Hans Blix before the Iraq war, receiving transcripts under the intelligence-sharing arrangement with the US and Britain.www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/27/1077676969778.html

Senate Panel Presses Bush On War's Plan:
Faced with a refusal by the Bush administration to provide certain documents related to prewar intelligence on Iraq, the Senate intelligence committee voted in a closed session on Thursday to move toward a possible subpoenawww.informationclearinghouse.info/article5781.htm

Hans Blix: US 'created' weapons facts:
"During a meeting at the White House at the end of October 2002, six months
before the beginning of the war, Cheney told us he would not hesitate to discredit
the inspections"www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5759.htm

Bush Lies Uncovered:
For those still puzzling over the why the Bush administration decided to invade Iraq, two key players offered important, but curiously unnoticed, clues this week by two central players.www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17923

23/02/04

Daniel Ellsberg: Where are Iraq's Pentagon papers?:
I urge patriotic and conscientious Americans who have access to these documents, and who know it is wrong for their bosses to lie to the public about why we are in this war, to consider doing what I wish I had done in 1964 or early 1965, years earlier than I did: Go to Congress and the press; tell the truth, with documents.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5746.htm

Daily Brief with Ray McGovern :
When I ask Ray McGovern if the findings of President
Bush‚s commission on intelligence failures in Iraq will give us answers˜even if it doesn‚t get them to us until well after the November election˜he has a one-word answer: "No."www.ocweekly.com/ink/04/24/news-callahan.php

22/02/04

Officials: U.S. still paying millions to group that provided false Iraqi intelligence:
The Department of Defense is continuing to pay millions of dollars for information from the former Iraqi opposition group that produced some of the exaggerated and fabricated intelligence President Bush used to argue his case for war. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5741.htm

Is this the face of the man who gave Blair the cue for 45-minute WMD claim?:
A former Iraqi general who disappeared from Denmark
three days before the beginning of the war to oust Saddam Hussein is
thought to be the man who passed on the notorious "45-minute" claim
to British intelligence. news.independent.co.uk
/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=493879

21/02/04

The Truth Always Comes Out In The Wash:
Chalabi was made to order for the people who wanted to invade Iraq — and
it is abundantly clear that his intelligence was made to order, too.www.uexpress.com/georgieannegeyer/

Who Has What? : Weapons of Mass Destruction: WMD programs & possession:
128,000+: Estimated number of nuclear warheads built worldwide since 1945. 98% of these nuclear warheads have been built by the United States (55 percent or 70,000+) and Russia (43 percent or 55,000+)www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5724.htm

America tore out 8000 pages of Iraq dossier:
THE United States edited out more than
8000 crucial pages of Iraq’s 11,800-page dossier on weapons,
before passing on a sanitised version to the 10 non-permanent members
of the United Nations security council.www.sundayherald.com/30195

Skeptics in Britain doubt suicide in death of Iraq weapons adviser :
‘’It’s absolutely unbelievable to me … that a person could die just by cutting that artery,’’ said Dr. Andrew Rouse. ‘’The established wisdom is that it’s practically impossible to bleed to death’’ from
a wrist artery, he said.www.boston.com/dailynews/052/world/
Skeptics_in_Britain_doubt_suic:.shtml

Ghosts of 1973 still haunt Israel as its spies face Iraq probe:
Allegations that Israel‚s intelligence services provided the US with false information that Saddam possessed WMD because they wanted to encourage the Americans to attack Iraq and eliminate one of the Jewish state‚s
staunchest enemies without having to involve Israel.www.dailystar.com.lb/opinion/21_02_04_c.asp

19/02/04

Data From Iraqi Exiles Under Scrutiny:
In the years before the war in Iraq, an exile group set up a team of analysts in Washington, underwritten by United States government funds, to distribute a steady stream of reports on Saddam Hussein to the government and the news media, according to government officials and a document the group submitted to Congress.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5713.htm

Ahmad Chalabi and His Iranian Connection:
Chalabi, like any anti-Hussein leader,
clearly would have had a vested interest in providing the United
States with information that would lead it to invade Iraq and open
the door for a new regime — particularly a regime in which
Shia would play a leading role. It ought not to have been a surprise
that intelligence coming from the INC and Chalabi would tend to entice
the United States to war.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5709.htm

Pentagon offices face probe on Iraq claims:
At issue are the activities of the Office of Special Plans and the Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group, which operated under the auspices of Douglas Feith, undersecretary of defence for policy and a leading Pentagon hawkwww.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1048656.htm

Heads should roll’ over
Iraq:
Richard Perle, a chief proponent of last year’s U.S. invasion of Iraq,
yesterday called for the chiefs of the Central Intelligence Agency and the
U.S. Defence Intelligence Agency to step down because of their faulty conclusions
that Saddam Hussein possessed mass-killing weapons.

The neo-con philosophy of intelligence:
“I don’t know all the facts,” President George W Bush said recently about Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction. Perhaps he should have known them before declaring war. But, respond the neo-conservatives who are leading the push to reshape the US intelligence apparatus, intelligence shouldn’t
be about facts, but about basic instincts.www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FB19Aa01.html

17/02/04

Uri Avnery: Yes, Minister!: Intelligence failure and Iraq’s non-existent WMDs :
At this moment, three parallel but separate commissions of inquiry are at work: Of course, the commissions are not really intended to discover the truth. Their purpose is whitewash. In order to understand what has happened, no honorable judge, Lord, former senator or retired Mossad operative is required. Simple common sense will do.www.redress.btinternet.co.uk/uavnery73.htm

John W. Dean :
President Bush’s New Iraq Commission Won’t Be Investigating
the Key WMD Issue:
His commission is a sham, and simply ignores the very reason he was pressured
to create it. Yet it seems no one is complaining — or at least, no one
who could force the commencement of an legitimate investigation.writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20040213.html

Kay: Bush Should Admit “Error” on Iraq WMD :
Former U.S. weapons inspector David Kay is advising President Bush to acknowledge he was wrong about hidden storehouses of weapons in Iraq and move ahead with overhauling the intelligence process.www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/
story/0,1282,-3744512,00.html

Iraq arms hunt in doubt in ‘02:
The classified U.S. intelligence study findings
diverge from statements by U.S. officials that caches of banned weapons
would be found. In February 2003, two months after completion of the
study, CIA Director George Tenet told lawmakers, “I think we
will find caches of weapons of mass destruction, absolutely.”www.usatoday.com/news/washington
/2004-02-12-wmd-hunt_x.htm

Government ‘warned’ on intelligence:
Intelligence agencies told the Federal Government
in the weeks before the Iraq war that some of the Bush Administration’s claims justifying an invasion were exaggerated, according to one of Australia’s
most senior intelligence officials.www.theage.com.au/articles/2004
/02/13/1076548224395.html

13/02/04

Government ‘warned’ on
intelligence:
Intelligence agencies told the Federal Government in the weeks before
the Iraq war that some of the Bush Administration’s claims justifying an invasion were exaggerated, according to one of Australia’s
most senior intelligence officials.www.theage.com.au/articles/2004
/02/13/1076548224395.html

David Kay: No point in searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq:
The former chief of the group of experts responsible for finding weapons
of mass destruction in Iraq, David Kay, said there was no point in continuing
to hunt for arms he said “really did not exist.”www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5636.htm

Study of Rhetoric On Iraq Is Urged:
David Kay, the former chief U.S. arms
inspector in Iraq, said yesterday that President Bush’s new
commission on intelligence should study how the president and his
senior policymakers used the information they received from intelligence
agencies.www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
articles/A30354-2004Feb10.html

Study of Rhetoric On Iraq Is Urged:
David Kay, the former chief U.S. arms
inspector in Iraq, said yesterday that President Bush’s new
commission on intelligence should study how the president and his
senior policymakers used the information they received from intelligence
agencies.www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
articles/A30354-2004Feb10.html

Powell exposed by his barefaced lies on Iraq:
Powell’s “evidence” and “facts” have proved to be not only “assertions” and “conjecture”,
but erroneous ones at that. But one year, one war, no UN resolution and
thousands of deaths later, we are still waiting for someone to pay the
price for a conflict that never needed to start and sparked a resistance
that shows no sign of ending.www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/
02/10/1076388360069.html

10/02/04

Doubts, dissent stripped from public Iraq assessment:
The public version of the U.S. intelligence community’s key prewar assessment of Iraq’s illicit arms programs was stripped of dissenting opinions, warnings of insufficient information and doubts about deposed dictator Saddam Hussein’s
intentions, a review of the document and its once-classified version shows.www.montereyherald.com/mld/m
ontereyherald/news/7914462.htm

Jay Bookman: Bush bullied CIA in order to dupe us:
The Bush administration is now admitting that WMD were never the reason for the war. They chose to invade Iraq not to protect us from anthrax or nuclear attack, but because they hoped that an invasion would inspire new respect for U.S. power and would allow us to use Iraq as a base from which to transform the entire Arab world.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5634.htm

Ex-judge on Iraq inquiry ‘involved in cover-up’:
Laurence Silberman, a retired judge nominated by the Bush administration as the co-chairman of the commission investigating pre-war intelligence on Iraq, was involved in a major cover-up during the Reagan era, his critics alleged yesterday.www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1144586,00.html

Agency: Iraqi defector made up weapons report:
A classified “fabrication notification” about the defector,
a former Iraqi major, was issued by the DIA to other U.S. intelligence
agencies in May 2002, but it was then repeatedly overlooked, three senior
intelligence officials said.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5633.htm

Agency: Iraqi defector made up weapons report:
A classified fabrication notification about the defector,
a former Iraqi major, was issued by the DIA to other U.S. intelligence
agencies in May 2002, but it was then repeatedly overlooked, three senior
intelligence officials said.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5633.htm

Scott Ritter: Kerry, Too, Needs to Clear the Air:
The problem for Sen. Kerry, of course, is that he, too, is culpable in the massive breach of public trust that has come to light regarding Iraq, WMD and the rush to war.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5631.htm

No Need For An Investigation! McCain Says Bush did not manipulate Iraq intelligence:
U.S. Senator John McCain, who will sit on a commission investigating failures in the intelligence used to justify the Iraq war, said on Friday he did not believe President George W. Bush had manipulated information.www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?
type=topNews&storyID=4304495

Ability to make WMDs reason enough for war:
Bush, Cheney: President George Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney said on Saturday that the war in Iraq was justified because Saddam Hussein could have made weapons of mass destruction.www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/02/08/1076175029798.html

Now it’s a battle for the truth:
It is unnerving to watch the world’s most powerful intelligence chief with his back to the wall. But when the CIA’s director, George Tenet, stood up at Georgetown University to explain his handling of the prewar intelligence on Iraq’s weapons, there was little doubt he was on the defensive and his career was on the line.www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02
/06/1075854070686.html

Well, the fix, as they say, is in:
The commission doesn’t appear to have any subpoena power, only the right to “full and complete access to information relevant to its mission as described in section 2 of this order.”www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

07/02/04

Kay queries White House war talk:
The White House may have ignored some aspects of intelligence on Iraq in the run-up to war, former chief US weapons inspector David Kay has suggested.news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3464807.stm

Scott Ritter: Not everyone got it wrong on Iraq’s weapons:
The Bush administration, relied on rumor, speculation, exaggeration and falsification to mislead the American people and their elected representatives into supporting a war that is rapidly turning into a quagmire. We knew the truth about Iraq’s WMD. Sadly, no one listened.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5625.htm

06/02/04

Iraq threat was limited, troops told:
Australian troops fighting in Iraq were told in an official briefing days before entering the country that Saddam Hussein did not have the capability to launch weapons of mass destruction against its neighbours.www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/
02/06/1075854063537.html

Blair ‘fully informed on arms intelligence’:
Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon yesterday played down suggestions that Prime Minister Tony Blair was not fully informed about the details of key intelligence reports in the lead-up to war in Iraq.www.gulf-daily-news.com/Articles.asp
?Article=73478&Sn=WORL

06/02/04

Spies, Lies, and Weapons:
How could we have been so far off in our estimates of Saddam Hussein’s weapons programs? A leading Iraq expert and intelligence analyst in the Clinton Administration˜whose book The Threatening Storm proved deeply influential in the run-up to the war˜gives a detailed account of how and why we erredwww.theatlantic.com/issues/2004/01/pollack.htm

ABC Australia: Interview with former weapons inspector, Scott Ritter:
Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter says that in 1998 when he left the U.N. “there was not a single intelligence service in the world that said Iraq maintained massive stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction”.www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5621.htm

05/02/04

Don’t be fooled again:
Where do you even start? Perhaps with the comedy of George Bush demanding “to know the facts” about Iraq’s non-existent arsenal of weapons of mass destruction – casting himself as an aggrieved American voter, somehow hoodwinked into the war with Iraq.politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/
0,9115,1140508,00.html

05/02/04

Robert Fisk: Blame the BBC:
An interview with Robert Fisk, award-winning journalist with The Independent of London, covers the current disaster in Iraq and the efforts by those responsible for the illegal invasion to divert attention by looking for fictitious sources of faulty intelligencewww.informationclearinghouse.info/article5620.htm

04/02/04

Intelligence chief’s bombshell:
‘We were overruled on dossier’: The intelligence official whose revelations stunned the Hutton inquiry has suggested that not a single defence intelligence expert backed Tony Blair’s most contentious claims on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.news.independent.co.uk/uk/polit
ics/story.jsp?story=487557

04/02/04

British officers knew on eve of war that Iraq had no WMDs:
UK intelligence learned just before war that Iraq had not assembled chemical weapons. Mossad “knew 45-minute claim was an old wives‚ tale” – but did not tell UK or US. US Secretary of State “does not know” if he would have recommended invasion if he had been told Iraq had no WMDsnews.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=136082004

Ray McGovern Exposes the deceit behind the Bush WMD “Investigation”:
In the United States, Where the Bush administration has called an inquiry, sceptics are convinced that it is a political stitch-up. “It’s *ull*hit,” said Ray McGovern, a retired CIA analyst with 27 years of experience. “The commission will be just like the [11 September] commission and it will not report back until after the election. It will not look into the politicisation of intelligence.” A must watchwww.informationclearinghouse.info/article5618.htm

Blair Limits Inquiry on Iraq Intelligence:
Prime Minister Tony Blair insisted Wednesday an inquiry he ordered will examine only the quality of intelligence leading to the invasion of Iraq – not whether the war that ousted Saddam Hussein was justified.www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/7871173.htm

Israel knew Iraq had no WMD, says MP:
A prominent Israeli MP said yesterday that his country’s intelligence services knew claims that Saddam Hussein was capable of swiftly launching weapons of mass destruction were wrong but withheld the information from Washington.www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpol
itics/story/0,3605,1140399,00.html

04/02/04

Claims Israel misled US over Iraq:
Yossi Sarid, a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, said
that Israeli intelligence knew beforehand that Iraq had no weapons stockpiles
and misled US President George W Bush. In contrast, a lawmaker from Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon’s Likud Party said Israel had shared its doubts
with the Americans.www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/02/04/1075776090094.html

Carnegie Report:
WMD in Iraq: Evidence and Implications: Administration officials systematically
misrepresented the threat from Iraq‚s WMD and ballistic missile programs.There
was no evidence to support the claim that Iraq would have trans-ferred
WMD to Al Qaeda and much evidence to counter it.www.ceip.org/files/projects/npp/resources/iraqintell/home.htm